----- Original Message -----
From: "Milos Prudek" <prudek@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:22 PM
Subject: [Exim] mailman
> I can't make mailman work with exim. I always get a mail loop between
> mailman machine and internal mailserver. Can I send excerpts from my
> exim.conf here?
>
> --
> Milos Prudek
Perhaps mailman somehow doesn't like exim?
I've had problems myself with debian slink I don't think that
it is an exim problem, but lets make sure. Here is a copy
of what I sent to debian-users:
>Hi, I'm a bit new to Debian so forgive me if this is
>a FAQ, but I installed mailman last night via apt-get
>and everything seemed to be working beautifully
>until I checked the machine this morning and discovered
>the filesystem was ro. The logs said that there was
>an attempt to access beyond the end of /dev/hda1
>so I ran e2fsck, fixed the errors and finally put the
>drive back in rw.
>
>Everything went smoothly until 12 hours later when
>the server started dying and I noticed the average load
>had begun climbing through the roof. A ps aux revealed
>about 100 instances of /USR/CRON running! Upon looking at
>the logs I see alot of the following:
>
> Jan 17 18:35:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[275]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/usr/lib/mailm
>an/cron/gate_news)
>Jan 17 18:38:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[287]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x
>/usr/sbin/exim ]; th
>en /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi)
>Jan 17 18:40:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[314]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules &&
>/sbin
>/rmmod -a)
>Jan 17 18:40:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[315]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/usr/lib/mailm
>an/cron/gate_news)
>Jan 17 18:42:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[321]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/usr/lib/mailm
>an/cron/run_queue)
>
>...and on and on. It appears that some of these aren't properly exiting,
>turning my box into a time bomb? This has happened twice
>now at 12 hour intervals.
>
>Any and all help much appreciated,
>
>-Mark (going back to look in /usr/lib/mailman/cron)
>
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